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Get Normal "Save" dialog in Microsoft Office 365

This trick is golden. It makes the non-standard Office "Save" dialogs go away. I post it here because this drove me crazy until I found the solution.

Click File > Options > Save, and then check the "Don’t show the Backstage when opening or saving files" box.

Apparently these horrific dialogs are called "Backstage" by Microsoft. I will never understand why anyone would want to see them. They are entirely unintuitive and just cumbersome. They do not fit the rest of the Windows UX, and you never seem to be able to navigate the filesystem. They are so complicated and annoying that I don't understand them to this day. Even worse than Clippy and the Ribbon.

What is this horrific "Backstage View" supposed to be good for, except being inconistent and annoying people?

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